The first passenger plane developed in Japan in more than half a century made its debut flight last week in Nagoya, a key step toward the country's goal of competing globally as an aircraft manufacturer. The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), which can seat 92 people, has had its delivery delayed three times, expertise of bullet-train specialists to ensure until Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp finally tapped the versions of the with the plane was The company so far 407 orders two MRJ the first models due for delivery to All Nippon Airways in the second quarter of 2017 demand has a lot of potential," said Dan Lu, an analyst at JPMorgan Securities in Tokyo."lexpect for regional jets to increase as more people fly and airlines put smaller jets on some routes